Canatlán

Information and facts about the municipality of Canatlán

Location of Canatlán

The municipality of Canatlán is located in the Mexican state of Durango México

Population of Canatlán

The overall population of the municipality named Canatlán is 29354 citizens, 14467 males and 14887 females.

Age distribution

The population of Canatlán is divided into 11427 minors and 17927 adults, with 3460 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Canatlán

184 people in Canatlán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 77 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 67 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 11016 citizens of Canatlán.

Economic situation

In Canatlán about 7248 households are registered.

7181 of these households are common houses or apartments, 806 are without floor and about 122 consist of one room only.

5792 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 6711 are connected to the public water supply, 6952 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 680 households to own a computer, 3954 own a washing machine and 6528 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Canatlán

Besides the 935 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 232 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

883 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 9922 persons did not finish the school. 4491 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 4412 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2018 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.